Habits of Successful Tower Gardeners: Are You Doing These 6 Things?

While Tower Garden simplifies traditional gardening, it does require regular attention. Once you transfer your seedlings to the Tower Garden, it's important to properly maintain your system to ensure a plentiful, healthy yield.

1. Turn daily.

If only part of your Tower Garden receives sunlight each day, rotate the reservoir lid 1/4 turn in the same direction daily to achieve uniform plant growth. The Tower Garden dolly makes this task much easier.

2. Monitor weekly.

Check your Tower Garden 1-2 times a week to ensure:

pH level is between 5.5-6.5. pH may fluctuate as plants grow. After adding nutrients, measure pH with the testing kit that came with your Tower Garden, and adjust as necessary. Helpful hint: Yellowing leaves are often an indication the pH is not within the recommended range.

Water temperature is between 65-85 degrees. To reduce heat transference from the ground, place your Tower Garden on a dolly, doormat or something similar. On hot days, you may add frozen water bottles to the water reservoir or move your Tower to the shade.

Reservoir is full. When adding water and nutrients, keep in mind a Tower Garden full of small seedlings requires only 200 ml of Tower Tonic A and 200 ml of Tower Tonic B starting out. When your plants grow large with lots of roots, check water levels twice a week.

Plants show no signs of pests or diseases. Check plant leaves for things like holes and mildew. If you notice a problem, reference our growing guides to identify the solution.